Hello Tranquillus in Exile,
No president or ex-president has behaved like this in the history of the Republic. Trump is the first, and his cultists either can’t see what’s wrong or don’t give a damn. But will He Who Can Never Lose be the last?
I think it will be a long while if ever that we see another personality quite like him. Who grows up in such a position? He had everything handed to him including a chip on his shoulder. With that much money, most people would be able to have a wonderful life, very enjoyable with lots of friends, earn some respect, make some accomplishments to be proud of.
But not Trump.
But poor Donald Trump was psychologically doomed from the start because his mind was poisoned by greed and suspicion cruelly implanted in it by his father. He can't have any real friends. He has to assume everyone is out to get him. He's always the victim. He thinks everybody hates him because he's rich. And he's suspicious that everyone is trying to get his money. The reality is that he hates everyone else because they have happiness and all he has is money. He thinks he's supposed to get respect because of his money, but all he really does is get people to pretend to respect him because they're bought and paid for.
He is envious of others for their happiness but he won't let himself admit it. He thinks everybody is in this big cutthroat competition to build wealth, and that it requires bending the rules or downright breaking them as long as you can get away with it. He probably feels inadequate because others don't have to do all those dirty tricks and they can get just as wealthy as him. But he will pull any dirty sneaky trick he can think of as long as he believes he can get away with it. And this requires him to spend a lot of money on lawyers.
Donald Trump spends great wealth on lawyers trying to screw others or the government out of wealth, and sometimes he doesn't get back as much as he spends, or he just stiffs his lawyers and gets new ones. Donald Trump has to spend hours a day figuring out who to rip off or cheat, and how he's going to get away with it. He has to spend lots of time with the lawyers he hires to manage their efforts. It doesn't sound like a very happy life at all.
He probably feels like a loser inside because he really is a lousy businessman who pretends he's great but he's ultimately only fooling himself, and most of his wealth has come from rental property and being a reality TV entertainer. And now the fools who simply send him money because they are duped.
I doubt there are many like him.